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Meanings of discoid in English

Having a flat circular shape.

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The Photos clearly show a man-made discoid craft hovering, tilting and landing.
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
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The discoid lateral meniscus is the most common abnormal meniscal variant in children.
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Rewarming caused reassembly of the circumferential bundle and recovery of platelet discoid form.
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This symptom complex is almost invariably associated with a discoid meniscus.
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The discoid form of blood platelets is important to their function in hemostasis.
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Diagram of discoid segmentation in the bird's ovum (magnified about ten times).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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EDTA-exposed platelets lost their normal discoid shape and were larger.
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Severance of the discoid mammal embryo from the yelk-sac, in transverse section (diagrammatic).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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In some of the Lemurs (Tarsius) a discoid placenta with decidua is developed.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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An otherwise asymptomatic knee with an incidentally detected discoid meniscus does not require surgical intervention.
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Their discoid shape provides a radially symmetric geometry, which simplifies analysis of the flow pattern.
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There are two lateral, discoid, brown chromatophores, each of which possesses a central amylum granule.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
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Unstimulated blood platelets have a characteristic discoid form supported by a circumferential band of microtubules.
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I am convinced that it is nothing else than the discoid, flattened gastrula of the birds.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The extent of meniscectomy was decided along with tear patterns and the stability of the discoid meniscus.
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Taxol-treatment protected platelet microtubules from disassembly in the cold and preserved the discoid shape of most platelets.
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